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When disaster strikes, access constraints can severely affect timely humanitarian assistance to isolated and disaster-prone mountain communities. Local people often are forced to be self-sufficient in the first days and weeks following a disaster. Last year, Tajikistan’s vulnerable mountain...

“When I was growing up, my father didn’t allow my mother to use the phone in our home,” said Gayane Azizyan, a software engineer from Armenia who now lives in Sweden, “For so many reasons, women in male-dominated societies still do not benefit from day-to-day technology that could...

This story was originally published on 11 October 2015 on Medium.
Dear world decision-makers,
There are more than two billion of us. Yet, we are rarely heard. Our needs and aspirations seldom taken into account.
During wars and in the chaos following natural disasters, we are among the most...